Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Thought of the Day

Geller, the narrative goes, should never have encouraged people to draw Muhammad because it was "provocative." To which the answer should be: So what? Women attending school in Afghanistan "provokes" radical Muslims into throwing acid on their faces, but that does not mean that women should not go to school in Afghanistan or be condemned for doing so.

Geller, the narrative goes, made Americans less safe by provoking radical Muslims, as though Muslims have no responsibility to act like decent human beings -- as though, faced with the prospect of a cartoon of their prophet, Muslims have no choice but to grab guns and go a-huntin'. But that's nonsense. What truly spurs radical Muslims into violence is the well-evidenced belief that if they kill enough Muhammad cartoonists, soon people will stop drawing cartoons of Muhammad.

Ben Shapiro

And I'll add that the Muslims seem to be winning on this as proved by the ill-thought-out statements of too many Americans on the left and right who criticize Geller for exercising her God given right to express herself but say nothing about the murderous Jihadis.

Sunday, May 10, 2015

Thought of the Day

Specifically, I cannot stand the way New Class bureaucrats think they must be autonomous from the taxpayers who pay their salaries. Imagine if we lived in anything like the “Christianist” theocracy so many lefties live in quaking fear of. Evangelical bureaucrats would likely fund art they liked. The professional Bohemians would shriek — with some justification — that the state was imposing its values on the rest of us. But when those same people are in driving the gravy train, they think there’s nothing wrong — and everything right — with imposing their values.

Monday, May 04, 2015

British Elections

To the few readers I have in the UK:

Vote UKIP on Thursday because it's past time for the socialists Labor, sorry, Labour Party to take over the Government because the conservatives are squabbling amongst themselves regarding who is purer of heart.

UPDATE: UKIP hugely underperformed and the Tories and squish Conservative PM David Cameron will in all likelihood continue to reside at 10 Downing. Labour did much more poorly than any poll was indicating and the "moderate" and small party socialists lost big to the far left Scottish nationalists whom I guess it would be inappropriate to call National Socialists.

One of the campaign promises that the Tories will probably have to deliver on is a national referendum in 2017 regarding the desire for the UK to remain in the European Union. Things could actually get interesting politically there.